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Olivier drives Thingthing Keyboard’s vision, UX strategy and growth. He has a vast experience practicing user-centric innovation from leading 18+ innovation projects in many different sectors such as telecom, media, banking, insurance, etc. Self-driven, he deeply believes that user-centric thinking is a gate to meaningful innovation.

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Over time, the layout became deeply embedded in American and global culture through widespread adoption in both commercial and personal use. The success of QWERTY can be largely attributed to early network effects; as typists, businesses, and educational institutions standardized on QWERTY technology, it became the baseline for all subsequent innovations in typing and text input. Even as alternate designs emerged, the inertia of a well-entrenched system ensured that QWERTY would not only survive but thrive.

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Today, we are officially open-sourcing our mobile keyboard testing framework we call Kebbie.

While mobile virtual keyboards may appear straightforward on the surface, they are packed with cutting-edge technologies under the hood that vastly enhance user typing efficiency. For example: autocorrection, auto-completion, next-word prediction, and swipe gesture recognition are other NLP features that users typing on mobile use everyday.

This is why we wrote a Fleksy framework with the following features :

1. Comprehensive coverage of the four most important NLP features of a virtual keyboard

-- Auto-correction -- Auto-completion -- Next-word prediction -- Swipe gesture recognition

2. High performance, by leveraging multiprocessing to minimize testing time

3. Customizability, enabling the use of any text dataset, thus supporting multiple languages easily

4. Mobile platform as first-class citizen : entirely centered around mobile virtual keyboards

Dear community, we're eager to get you on testing our Virtual Keyboard SDK. It provides a vast amount of features! Check it out here : https://devhunt.org/tool/vk-sdk/

Our feature-rich virtual keyboard SDK enables developers, SMBs and Organisations to build a fully customized keyboard app. It includes our Fleksy Predictive Keyboard SDK and Templates, enabling you to build a 10x better software keyboard in 90% less time. Available on Android and iOS. Fleksy team

It was and his an amazing journey, what if tomorrow, you have a communication Dock called Thingthing. What if you can never have the need to switch apps while writing your next story. What if sharing all your content is easier than ever. We think of Thingthing as a whole new market for 3rd party services.